The state has spent over one billion euros on computers,software, and communications services in the past eight years inorder to improve efficiency, but the chaotic acquisitions - done aseach institution saw fit, led to the creation of thousands ofsystems that do not communicate with one another, and which, ratherthan help, tend to be an impediment. The state does not even knowat present how many computers and applications have been purchasedwith public funds and the amount of 1 billion euros invested inIT&C is in fact an estimate because no one has centralisedthese acquisitions in the past twenty years. Oversized and lackingcoordination, the state's IT system grows day by day through newacquisitions, which require spending on maintenance, while thesystem's efficiency is yet to be proven.
It is not a matter of Romanians not being good with software andcommunications - thousands of Romanians are employed in companiessuch as HP, IBM, and Oracle to solve IT&C problems of westerncompanies over the phone, but there is no manager there who canstand up even to the prime minister or to the president, and makesure that state acquisitions are carried out according to the rulesof private companies.
"The most important thing would be to have a manager with executiveauthority in the central administration, at governmental level -similar to an IT manager in a private company. The IT needs asupporter at this level, who does not necessarily have to work inthe ministry," says Sorin Mindrutescu, CEO of Oracle Romania.
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